The arctic mining city of Norilsk is one of the most polluted in the world - but many residents are still proud to call it home.
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The arctic mining city of Norilsk is one of the most polluted in the world - but many residents are still proud to call it home.
This must be a strange occupation for an adult.
One day in the life of a modern six-year-old girl, painted by the clock. Ballet, singing, English, and finally a swimming pool. But for a child, all this "development stuff" pales before the natural process of tooth loss!
A documentary about people who preserve nature, heritage and sacred sites. Filming took place on an expedition to the most beautiful places of Altai, during which the filmmakers talked about past, present and future with the guardians of ancient sanctuaries and ancient epics, the reserved nature and traditions of the Old Believers, the culture of nomads and the knowledge of the Altai wanderers .
Nafset, 28, now lives in Moscow and calls herself a Man of Peace. Nafset is blind from birth. She also performed solo at the closing ceremony of the Paralympics in Sochi. Nafset is flying to Maykop to give a concert and receive the title of Honored Artist. She will meet with relatives, journalists, officials of all stripes, the local symphony orchestra and the audience. For them, she is not a Person of the World at all, she is her own, local, Adyghe. The heritage of the republic. But is this role acceptable to Nafset herself?
An adopted teenage girl suffering from a lack of parental love finds a strange and dangerous way to attract attention to herself...
The film tells the story of a man who has just arrived to work in one of the villages as a security guard in an old club. There he meets the employees of the club, and they take turns telling him scary stories. People tend not to believe strange stories. He contradicts everything, expressing his arguments, proofs. But he's wrong. Because everything told has its roots of truth, reality and goes deep into the past times, which can not be returned.
An animated film based on the famous song about the brown button. A true "spy story" tells about the inviolability of the Soviet border and a country where even children stand guard over its safety.
A professor, watching the development of a love story between an amoeba and a microbe, sees in it his own life situation.
Teens Olga and Sergey fall in love among the ruins of a provincial industrial town. With their hope of breaking out of the cycle of urban depression and violence, it's too bad their fall break in high school in ending soon...
The heroes of the film will be real people who have faced blood cancer, whose lives are hanging by a thread, who have received hope for salvation by finding an unrelated donor.
The story of how the three-year-old philosopher Valya, with the help of his mother and doctors, defeated the disease and took his first step on his own.
Garik Martirosyan speaks with his large stand-up program, in which he will talk about his friends comedians, about modern trends, about Vatsap users. About how he posted the poster of his concert on Instagram and why it is compared with Petrosyan. Why is he not joking on the topic of Russian rap. How he writes his famous friends in a notebook and much more.
Guarded and aloof cancer survivor is trying to return to the normal life and forget the horrors of the defeated disease that are still haunting her. She finds a new job but it seems that she has nothing in common with other people. Socially withdrawing herself, she is stuck inside her own world filled with despair and flashbacks.
Sergey works as a wiper. His mother's ill. He has no friends. No girlfriend. Every day is just the same, and he expects nothing from this life. But casual acquaintance at the underground pass will change his life completely.
The film "Taxi Drivers" is the story of three Dushanbe natives who earn their living driving a taxi. Two of them are migrants – one turns the steering wheel in Moscow, the other in New York, and the third is engaged in hauling at home.
A fairy tale about how foxes became small and red.
Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union between Spring the Beauty and Grandfather Frost. Protected by her parents from the jealousy of the Sun god Yarilo who has vowed to warm her heart when she gets older and falls in love, Snegurochka the snow maiden is entrusted to the wood sprite…Aida Garifullina sings the role of Snegurochka whilst the production and musical direction have been left in the capable hands of two other Russian artists: the young conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov and director Dmitri Tcherniakov.
Thirteen-year-old Alina is going to summer camp. There, she shares a room with five other girls and takes part in the daily activities, which include games on the beach and lots of sports. At first she hangs back, hesitant, but she quickly finds her place in the group. She makes new friends, flirts with boys at the camp, dances in the evenings to loud music and shares secrets with her roommates. But it’s not so easy for everyone to find a place in the social structure of the camp. For Polina, the summer camp isn’t as warm and friendly as she’d hoped. Failing to connect with the other girls and feeling homesick, she withdraws into her own world. Paper Stars is a Russian coming-of-age film that, thanks to its direct camera style, is able to present an intimate, sensitive impression of teenage girls in a new environment where they feel unsure.
A little cat in a big African forest is looking for a friend. The most terrible thing. Someone who is not afraid of anyone.
The collection includes several fairy-tale stories: "Peter and Petrusha", "I won't tell you!", "About Ivan the Fool", "Zhiharka".
Director Kirill Serebrennikov puts on the play "Thugs" with his students. But who would have thought that the action of the play would spill over to the Moscow streets and the purely stage events would be enriched with reality? Will reality come out on stage?
Children are preparing for a war, preparing to kill. For some, it’s just toys, but for others, it is broken fates. And everywhere they are the toys in the adults hands.
Three former political prisoners tell the story of their imprisonment in the Soviet-era Perm-36 prison camp. Years later they return to the camp (now a museum) to participate in the “Pilorama” Forum, a campsite, mirror-like, reflects the condition of Russian society haunted by phantom pains after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Mashka and her two brothers are living in a small village located far from the big cities. Children are forced to survive: their mother died and their constantly drinking father doesn’t need them. Life goes on as usual, but the fate prepared yet another ordeal for the family.
Recent historical events in Ukraine - through the eyes of ordinary Ukrainians and Russians. Simple heroes - against the background of dramatic collisions. The second part of the documentary dilogy.
The well-known Slavic fairy tale in two of the most striking versions – Russian and Belarusian.
Novosibirsk: a town in deepest Siberia, where the absurd and the comical are in constant rivalry within the walls of its crematorium. Death can cause the crossing of paths of those never destined to meet, and I, standing in its midst, am learning to grapple with it.
Hikers on an idyllic trek through the peaceful southern countryside come across an old cemetery where every plot has a story and the day takes a most unexpected and most dreadful turn.
Would you want to change your life once and for all? Surely, yes. But everything was holding you back. However, the family of circus artists with a beautiful surname Groll did it. They realized their dream: to live in the village in a beautiful place, far from civilization. They were looking for a place for their new life all over the world, and they found it in Russia. Did they find what they were looking for?
Sometimes in life, you have to take a stand—even if you think you might regret it later—rather than living your whole life regretting that you could have acted but never did.
It's time now just to live. Just love each other with the highest power of pure feelings. This movie started many years ago. When we began to shoot it we could hardly imagine how this drama would end. Back then, Lena, mother of three, living Russian soul, divorced the father of her kids Yura and married a murderer sentenced to life imprisonment. What was it? Now, after painful challenges, becoming husband and wife again, Lena and Yura, simple rural aristocrats of the spirit, once again amaze us with the depth of their introspection, delicacy of feelings, with humor and sadness about things that will never happen.
Based on the film "Ugetsu" by K. Mizoguchi.
A young and silly hen falls in love with a handsome rooster. After a series of dramatic adventures, she unexpectedly becomes a mother to many children.
The story of how a nameless bug went in search of itself.
At the turn of the millennium, Viktor Pelevin became perhaps the most fashionable, popular and commercially successful writer in Russia. At the same time, he does not appear in public, does not give interviews, wears dark glasses, and does not like to be recognized on the street. Who is this mysterious Mr. Pelevin? How did it happen that the most honorable title for a Russian writer – "the ruler of thoughts" - turned out to be applicable to him today? And how was he able to keep his "incognito" at the same time? All this is reflected in the film by people who knew our elusive hero well at different periods of his life – his classmates and teachers, friends of his youth and fellow writers, critics and publishers
14-year-old Natasha gets into a difficult situation and is looking for someone to share her problem with, but it seems that no one wants to help. By the evening, Natasha's ideas about the good and the bad are turned upside down...
There are three eras in memories.
A ten-year-old boy lives in a small village in the mountains with his father, who is very sick. They till, ranch the cattle, make cheese. The only connection of this peaceful life with the outer world is a bridge. And the outer world is destroyed by war... Once the boy crosses the bridge and goes to the market square to sell cheese. This journey shows him the world full of strange and beautiful things. But death is always near and war can happen again any moment. When the boy returns home, he finds his father lying on the ground. In spite of all the danger, the little boy tries to save his father and to stand against the cruelty of life.
The coniferous forest reborned the dead killer. The forest need new blood. The killer goes for murdering.
Film about the neutrino observatory in the mountains of the Caucasus into Andyrtau mountain. This laboratory is unique in Russia, this observatory is one of the most profound, is located at a depth of 4000 m. The scientists collect information for about 40 years, catch a ghost particle neutrinos which is being emitted by the Sun and stars of galaxy.
Former fighter of the Belarusian "death squad" Yuri Garavsky tells how he participated in the abduction and murder of Lukashenka's opponents 20 years ago. Then ex-Interior Minister Yuri Zakharenko, ex-head of the Central Election Commission Viktor Gonchar and businessman Anatoly Krasovsky, who supported the opposition, disappeared in Belarus. Garavsky claims that they were kidnapped and killed by the soldiers of the special rapid reaction unit (SOBR) of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. Among them was Garavsky himself.
Marina has been doing gymnastics for over 15 years. She is the oldest (read, old) gymnast of the Pearl Olympic Reserve School. She would be happy to finish her career long ago and live a normal life: to study, to have a hobby, and in the end - to love. But by the will of the coach (or fate?), She did not go to the competitions, which she aspired to all her career. Therefore, she is forced to stay in sports for another two years at the age of 20 in order to wait for the next chance, and her coach, “Lena,” is forced to undergo endless trials, because that same Marina’s prison is the life of Elena Anatolyevna.
Film research of design in Russia. Many believe that a specifically Russian approach to design does not exist. But what if they underestimate the influence of culture, history and surrounding reality on the style and aesthetic guidelines of those who shape our visual environment? Natasha Klimchuk, Tim Cherny and Olya Morozova, leaders of the Bang Bang Education online design school, have assembled a company of 33 contemporary Russian designers. Among them are many famous names: Artemy Lebedev, Valery Golyzhenkov, Pokras Lampas, Anton Schneider, Denis Bashev, Oleg Pashchenko. They all speak and think in Russian and are inevitably inspired by what has become part of our everyday life, books, practices, rituals, holidays, economics, historical memory and fashion. With the help of these 33 guides, the almanac will try to find the features and boundaries of our national perception of beauty and look at what ethical and aesthetic values we carry to the world.
As a child, an inventor Alexey Garagashyan drew a detailed map of his village, but he immediately became interested in what was beyond its borders. So his main passion appeared - to overcome the bad roads. Every time he met impassable routes, he just created new modifications of transport. First, they were motorcycles, and then unique off-road vehicles, which became a sensation all over the world. Today, Alexey Garagashyan can travel without being attached to the roads, but only by choosing directions.
Was Hungary one the fascists’ side in WWII? Why does a hydraulic chair leg cost 245 rubles in Maxidom, but only costs 105 in «Leroy Merlin»? Did they have socialism there too? So they don’t have that wall paper? Did you know that it’s democratic parliamentarian republic? It’s the birthplace of the Rubik’s cube. You’d be better off holding this glue instead of goofing off. What would you do if you found out your father was a collaborator? The father was repressed, while the son was repressing the uprising. You know, I write about you in my scripts, I give out your secrets, so what do you feel? Is it dad’s wrench? Maybe they can think that you just made me up? Well, at first I didn’t like it, but then I accepted it. Can I go now?
How to get rid of loneliness, bring back the unfaithful husband and make a man fall in love with you – women line up to Rezo with problems like these. This Georgian in Moscow who can solve problems in any family…except his own.
In places remote from the capital, amateur art is the main center of beauty and culture. This is an attempt to understand what is "big" and "small" in relation to the soul and homeland.
A film about a film where a film was made, but the lead actress vanished from celluloid.
This story is about a mother who has given so much that it looks like she has nothing left... but the life opens up the new opportunities
A faded musician is forced to revisit the scarring memories of his past when he hears his melody being played for the first time since his muse left him
Mother and daughter, evacuated after the bombing in Makeyevka, are learning to live anew.
The long-awaited full-length project with the participation of the classic Russian aphorists Arkady Davidovich and the star of Russian rock and roll Konstantin Stupin. The plot revolves around two guys from the outskirts who create a new life, following the recipes of the ancient alchemists. We are not aware of their motives, we do not know why and why they decided to do this. It remains only to closely monitor how they methodically, step by step, repeat the mysterious recipe of Paracelsus, extracting each ingredient, conducting with it all the necessary manipulations. Mystical experience surrounded by familiar household scenery turns into a theater of the absurd.